New Video Aims to Mobilize Rural Native Youth to Register to Vote New Video Aims to Mobilize Rural Native Youth to Register to Vote
There's a concerted effort to register Native voters in 2012, and make a big impact on Election Day.
Sep 11, 2012 / Voting Rights Watch and Aura Bogado
Protecting Torturers, Prosecuting Whistleblowers Protecting Torturers, Prosecuting Whistleblowers
While CIA agents that tortured and killed prisoners go unpunished, whistleblower John Kiriakou faces up to forty-five years in prison.
Sep 11, 2012 / Peter Van Buren
Chicago Teachers Push Back Against Neoliberal Education Reform Chicago Teachers Push Back Against Neoliberal Education Reform
In Chicago, teachers aren’t just fighting for a fair contract—they’re fighting to stop the education reform agenda that dominates the national debate.
Sep 11, 2012 / Matthew Cunningham-Cook
Remembering Brian Gerber Remembering Brian Gerber
Brian took great joy in sharing pictures of his newborn first child and he always had a twinkle in his eye delivering an ironic comeback for any climate change naysayers.
Sep 11, 2012 / Nicole Hansen
Why Native Women Need VAWA (VIDEO) Why Native Women Need VAWA (VIDEO)
Republican House leadership continues to block passage of the Violence Against Women Act. No one suffers the consequences of this political gamesmanship more than Native women.
Sep 11, 2012 / Greg Kaufmann
Isn’t It Time to Go All William Jennings Bryan on Paul Ryan? Isn’t It Time to Go All William Jennings Bryan on Paul Ryan?
The Republican vice presidential nominee is part of an economic royalist cabal that has stalled action on farm and food legislation that’s essential to working farmers, rural...
Sep 11, 2012 / John Nichols
The GOP Throws a Tampa Tantrum The GOP Throws a Tampa Tantrum
The long-running feud between moderates and conservatives is over. The wackos have won.
Sep 10, 2012 / Feature / Rick Perlstein
No Place Like Home No Place Like Home
In a desperate election, nostalgia for an America before the decline is the GOP’s only message.
Sep 10, 2012 / Feature / JoAnn Wypijewski
The GOP’s Authoritarian Strategy The GOP’s Authoritarian Strategy
Demographic trends threaten the party’s electoral future—but it does have another option.
Sep 10, 2012 / Feature / Jonathan Schell
Katrina vanden Heuvel: The RNC Was Nothing but Post-Truth Politics Katrina vanden Heuvel: The RNC Was Nothing but Post-Truth Politics
On Real Time with Bill Maher, Nation editor and publisher Katrina vanden Heuvel compares the DNC’s diverse showing with the “pale and stale” RNC.
Sep 10, 2012 / Press Room